Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Ben Margolis Papers,
- Dates:
- 1941-1973
- Creators:
- Margolis, Ben, 1910-
- Abstract:
- Ben Margolis (1910- ) helped draft the United Nations charter, the rule of law, and the conduct of the United States government in Viet-nam and the Dominican Republic (1965). The collection consists of government documents regarding Ben Margolis including material from the FBI, the Naval Investigation Service, the Department of the Treasury, CIA, Department of State, Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Ben Margolis Papers (Collection 1509). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of government documents regarding Ben Margolis. Includes material from the FBI (some stemming from the House Committee on Un-American Activities), the Naval Investigation Service, the Department of the Treasury, CIA, Department of State, Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
- Biographical / historical:
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Margolis was born on April 23, 1910 in New York City, New York; attended Santa Barbara State College, 1926-28; AB, University of Southern California, 1929; LL.B, University of California, Hastings School of Law, 1933; admitted to California bar, 1933; did legal work for the CIO; associated with several law firms, including Gladstein, Grossman and Margolis (San Francisco, 1937-43) and Margolis, McTernan, Scope, Sacks & Epstein (Los Angeles), beginning in 1973; member, National Lawyers Guild; wrote, with others, The United Nations charter, the rule of law, and the conduct of the United States government in Viet-nam and the Dominican Republic (1965).
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Ben Margolis.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2003
- Date Encoded:
- Text rekeyed by Caroline Cubé from in-house paper finding aid, September 2003 . Machine-readable finding aid derived from rekeyed finding aid, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Online finding aid edited by Josh Fiala. Date of source: 1/1987 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Ben Margolis Papers (Collection 1509). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988